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Computer Associates to Record
Worker Stock Options as Expenses

By

Jerry Guidera Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal

Updated July 30, 2002 11:59 p.m. ET

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Computer Associates International Inc. said it would voluntarily begin recording stock options awarded to employees as an expense in its regular bookkeeping, breaking ranks with other large technology companies that have long opposed the accounting change.